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Mid-March is a sort of holiday no-man's land. The spring holidays don't start for a few more weeks and the winter holidays are a faded memory. Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and there's a good excuse to eat, drink and be merry. And, just as you don't need to be Irish to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, QC says a clover doesn't have to have just three leaves to be a shamrock--not this month, anyway. Here are some shamrock and four-leafclover-inspired products that can bring anyone luck.

Tom Cruise may have proclaimed his love for Katie Holmes on Oprah Winfrey's show, but that doesn't mean the Big O gets an invite to TomKat's wedding. Oprah (left) told Extra that "they had a limited number of people they could invite. I was not one of the invitees. That's fine. I don't get invited to everyone's wedding. I don't invite them to everything I do. But I wish them the best." Still, Oprah's taking the high road and intends to give the lovebirds a gift--although she hasn't chosen it yet. "I'm easier [to shop for]

Even though Tom Cruise announced his love for Katie Holmes on Oprah Winfrey's couch, Winfrey won't be attending the couple's wedding Saturday in Italy. "It's not that I'm not going," Winfrey said in an Extra interview reported on People.com. "It's that they had a limited number of people that they could invite. . . . That's fine. I don't get invited to everyone's wedding. I don't invite them to everything I do. But I wish them the best." "I have a great deal of regard for their relationship," she said.

What a great country this is. The White Sox win their first World Series since 1917, and Chicago is named America's best sports city. Never mind that the Cubs still are rebuilding from their last championship in 1908. The Heat wins the NBA title, and Miami is voted the nation's second-best sports city. Never mind that the Marlins draw an average attendance of family and friends. But, seriously, we should be honored that our dusty trophy case has new hardware, thanks to The Sporting News.

We don't know much about the people who built the place we call Mesa Verde, in what today is southwestern Colorado. Experts say that the "Ancestral Puebloan" people were agrarian, lived an average of 32 to 34 years and that about half of their children died before the age of 5. They moved up onto the mesa somewhere around A.D. 500, and although they used the cliff alcoves from the time they arrived, they didn't actually build the cliff dwellings until...

First there was Chanel's little black dress, then Prince's little red Corvette. Now, just in time for the party girls of summer, comes the Little Pink Box wine. "Passionately pink and fun to drink," promises Sutter Home Family Vineyard of its 2003 white zinfandel wine presented in a new, cube-shaped box. But for many, particularly those who prefer more exalted grapes, the fun comes in the product's seriously pink packaging. Best are the swinging '60s touches that give it the look of a Kotex box on acid.

By Leah Jayasanker, a RedEye special contributor. and $5 Get a look that's star-studded | May 10, 2004

You may not be a screen siren, but you can spice up your beauty regimen if you just follow the stars. "Vegas" vixen Vanessa Marcil is loyal to PersoNatalie Lip Gloss ($17, Nordstrom). Paint your pout or glisten eyes with this-makes-you-look-like-a-model product. (www.personatalie.com) Pore it on If fast-acting, shine-proof, keep-your-makeup-from-running-and-cracking all day is your desired look, try Peter Thomas Roth Max Anti-Shine Mattifying Gel ($35, Sephora.).

Champagne should be served just a little colder than white wine, but a prolonged stay in an ice bath will obscure its complexity. From room temperature, a full hour in the refrigerator or about 25 minutes in the freezer is about right. ---------- Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdipasquale@tribune.com) and Victoria Rodriguez (vrodriguez@tribune.com)

1. Brat Tuesday By now Mardi Gras is over--and Britney Spears has 10 new ex-husbands. 2. That's no Jacuzzi Rumor has it Gwyneth Paltrow bought a birthing pool to prepare herself to have her baby. Chris Martin's in for a hell of a surprise the next time he takes a bubble bath. 3. Going screwy Paris Hilton says she has titled her debut album "Screwed." "It's about a girl who gets screwed over by a guy," she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Draw your own conclusions, people.

When Richard Lathan decided to replace his cast-iron tub a few years ago, there was no question about it: He was going to buy another one. His wife, Felicia, however, had other ideas. "She wanted something new, something that made bubbles or pulsated. I said `no, no, no.' I didn't think we needed anything like that," he said. Nevertheless, instead of a cast-iron tub, the Lathans, of Tower Lakes, purchased a BainUltra ThermoMasseur. Richard Lathan doesn't regret the about-face.